'Absolute Hell Hole': Private Prisons Set to House ICE Detainees Bring New Set of Problems
- Florida's Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention center began accepting detainees on July 2, 2025, at a remote Everglades airstrip.
- Governor Ron DeSantis authorized the facility's construction using emergency powers during the Biden administration, building it in just eight days.
- The center houses up to 3,000 detainees, can expand to 5,000, and uses National Guard members as immigration judges to speed deportations.
- President Trump called the site perfect and said it will hold "some of the most menacing migrants," while DHS Secretary Noem hopes other states follow Florida's lead.
- Critics protest due process violations and environmental harm in the Everglades, alleging the facility threatens endangered species and migrant rights amid lawsuits.
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The Left Wants To Open The Prisons As Part Of Traveling The Road To Chaos
Defund the police, abolish ICE, "due process," no human is illegal, outreach over incarceration…yada, Dada, yada.The Democrats oughta just be honest, they don’t want anyone locked up.Whether it’s Lefties bitching about Alligator Alcatraz or that communist Mamdani squawking about replacing the NYPD with social workers and outreach, our old favorite Kamala Harris and her world salad about "re-examining" ICE and starting from scratch, or their pass…
New ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ for migrants called a ‘sinful initiative’
MIAMI (OSV News) — Most Americans agree on the need for good U.S. border security, but to hear politicians and civil authorities hurl insults and jokes at the expense of migrants as Florida opened its new “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades “is sinful.” That is the view of Spain-born Father Federico Capdepón, a retired priest of the Miami Archdiocese and one of several local clergy who have been accompanying m…


Alligator Alcatraz opened ready for a hurricane – but not a summer shower
Alligator Alcatraz opened Tuesday without a water view. Then it rained.
By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN Nearly 70 members of the Florida National Guard are providing security at the new immigration detention center in the Everglades, top Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Wednesday. “The National Guard also plays a critical role in protecting the US southern border from illegal entry and maintaining the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States,” Parnell told reporters at a Pentagon ne…
"This is cruelty" - Martina Navratilova furious after Donald Trump says yes to controversial immigration judges at Florida detention center
Martina Navratilova has slammed US President Donald Trump for deploying Florida National Guard forces to serve as immigration judges at the newly built detention center, surrounded by alligator-filled
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